Learning disabilities: can arts and crafts help mental health?: Arts and crafts activities can stimulate discussion on mental health and well-being between people with learning disabilities and their caregivers.
People with learning disabilities experience poorer mental health than those in the mainstream population (Sheerin 2017). Much of this comes not from any underlying illness, but rather from an imbalance between coping skills and the everyday stresses of living a life that may be very different to th...
| Published in: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 16 - 18 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Apr2024
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |